A Woman being Shot by Arrows (Triptych)

A salmon-pink curtain patterned with white polka dots drapes diagonally across the upper portion of this panel, its folds shaded in grey, beneath a swagged grey canopy edged in red-and-white stripes; a dark-haired head is faintly visible tucked beneath the fabric at left. Across the lower register runs a black-and-white striped curtain accented with a band of black dots, and in the bottom right corner a dark-fletched arrow lies diagonally against the pale ground. The palette is restricted to salmon, cream, black, and grey, and the composition — a fragment of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi's triptych "A Woman being Shot by Arrows" (woodblock print, date unknown) — feels tightly enclosed and still.